Two things that I created at Wesleyan that I want to compare and contrast are a picture of one of my collages and a picture of my sister wearing a mask. The first one was created in an art class, and the picture of my sister was taken during the pandemic. These two things share …
Research Skills
From a Teacher to a Friend
Last summer, I joined a program and taught art in a rural Chinese province, Yunnan, as a volunteer. Most of my students were fourteen years old, whereas I was seventeen. There were not a lot of age differences among us, but I was labeled as a “teacher” while they were “students.” I did not like …
Please Don’t Hate STEM
I always consider myself a humanities-based person. I am interested in literature, journalism, and sociology and think computer science and mathematics are the hardest subjects in the world. I did not have a single STEM class through my high school except the required calculus and statistics classes in my curriculum. Last fall, I took a …
Improve Writing Skills
I took an English class “Asian American Literature” last fall. Although I took a couple of literature classes back in high school and I am a literature lover, I found this class very challenging for me. I found it hard not because I could not understand the materials we were reading but because I did …



